Mona C. Charles, Director, Archaeological Field School
Courses: Archaeological Field Methods and Techniques, Archaeological Laboratory Methods and Techniques, Advanced Laboratory Methods and Techniques, and Geoarchaeology
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Email Contact: Charles_M@fortlewis.edu
Web Page: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/CHARLES%5FM/
Telephone: 970-247-7295

Philip Duke Ph.D., F.S.A., Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Courses: Introduction to Archaeology, Human Heritage, Archaeology of Greece and Rome, Plains Archaeology, Archaeology of North America, Anthropological Debates, Proseminar, Senior Seminar.
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Email contact: Duke_P@FortLewis.Edu
Web Page: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/duke_p
Telephone: 970-247-7346

Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Gender/Women’s Studies
Courses: Intro to Anthropology, Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnology of Andean South America, Ethnology of Amazonian South America, History of Anthropological Thought, Anthropology of Gender, Cultural Images of Women and Men, Advanced Research in the Anthropology of Gender, Advanced Research in Latin American Anthropology, Native American Gender & Sexuality, Representations and Power.
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Email contact: Fine_K@FortLewis.Edu
Web Page: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/fine_k
Telephone: 970-247-7438

David Kozak, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
Courses: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology, Magic and Religion, Food: Systems of Production, Distribution and Consumption, Medical Anthropology, Ethnology of the Southwest, The Spirit of Adventure, Anthropological Debates
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Email contact: Kozak_D@FortLewis.Edu
Telephone: 970-247-7498

Dawn Mulhern, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Courses: Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Human Biological Variation, Forensic Anthropology, Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
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Email contact: Mulhern_D@FortLewis.Edu
Telephone: 970-247-7500

Don Gordon, Ph.D., Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Email contact: Gordon_D@FortLewis.edu

W. James Judge, Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Email contact: Judge_J@FortLewis.Edu

Susan Riches, Ph.D., Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Email contact: Riches_S@FortLewis.Edu

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Anthropology Faculty Bios

Mona Charles is the Director of the FLC Archaeological Field School. She received her M.A. from the University of Nebraska and has extensive experience in geoarchaeology, remote sensing, cultural resource management, grant writing, public outreach, and replicative prehistoric ceramic production.  Her work with the archaeological field school currently emphasizes the origins and nature of the Colorado Basketmakers from indigenous hunters and gatherers to corn agriculturalists.  This research examines archaeological, geological and paleoenvironmental data in an effort to interpret the prehistory of the Durango area. 

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Philip G. Duke received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Calgary in Canada and an M.A. and B.A. from Cambridge University, England.  His interests include public archaeology and anthropological theory.  He is active in summer archaeological programs and each year takes a group of students on a study tour of Greece.

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Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Professor of Anthropology and Gender/Women’s Studies

Courses: Kathy Fine-Dare currently teaches Intro to Anthropology, Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnology of Andean South America, Ethnology of Amazonian South America, History of Anthropological Thought, Anthropology of Gender, Cultural Images of Women and Men, Advanced Research in the Anthropology of Gender, Advanced Research in Latin American Anthropology, and TS2R 407: Representations and Power, and Native American Gender & Sexuality.  She has also taught Political Anthropology, Human Heritage, and Tourism and Anthropology in the Southwest.  

Student connections:  Kathy currently is co-advisor for the Small Axes/Small Steps Native American activist club.  She is past advisor of the PRISM and Anthropology clubs.  She is the former coordinator of the Gender/Women’s Studies program and currently serves as an advisor for that program.  She has worked closely with the American Indian Studies Program, and advises students who wish to apply for Fulbright fellowships.

Awards:  She received the Alice Admire Outstanding Teaching Award in 1995 and was designated FLC’s Featured Scholar during the Fall 2006 term.

Scholarship:  Fine-Dare’s research and teaching interests in gender issues, indigenous cultural property rights, the history of anthropology, and the politics of indigenous cultural revitalization span the Americas.  She has conducted anthropological fieldwork in the Andes from 1979-1988, and again from 1995 to the present. She was a Fulbright dissertation fellowship recipient, and has received additional funding for her research from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fort Lewis College, and the Fort Lewis College Foundation.  She was selected as a Fulbright Lecturer in 2005 to teach in the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana’s  Anthropology and Culture M.A. program (Quito, Ecuador), and was an invited lecturer at Doshisha University’s Graduate American Studies Program in Kyoto, Japan in 2006.  She has given a wide variety of talks locally, including for the 2006 Mesa Verde Centennial Lecture series, and has recently been an invited speaker at George Mason University and Johns Hopkins University.  She was invited to speak at the Second Congress of Ecuadorian Anthropology in Quito in November, 2006 and plans to return to Quito in 2007 to work with two organizations focused on indigenous cultural revival.  

Over the years, Fine-Dare’s contact with Native American students and colleagues at Fort Lewis College has moved her work in the direction of Native American rights issues, particularly those concerned with representation and repatriation. She has published articles on these topics in Anthropological Quarterly and Radical History Review, and as a result of her experiences working on NAGPRA consultation efforts for the college and Mesa Verde National Park, she published a book called Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).  She has recently co-edited a work on the topic of “American Border Crossings: Towards a Transnational Americanist Anthropology” under contract with the University of Nebraska Press, and has an article forthcoming in a volume on archaeology and repatriation published by the School of American Research.

Service:  Fine-Dare and her husband, political scientist Byron Dare, have worked for several years to raise funds for a grade school located in an economically marginal area of Quito, Ecuador.  She currently does volunteer Spanish-language liaison work for Alternative Horizons and the Women’s Resource Center, and has served on the boards of both organizations.  She has done consultation work for Aztec National Monument, Chimney Rock archaeological center, and other local organizations.

Fine-Dare received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  For more information about her courses, publications, and projects, see her web site at http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/fine_k/.

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David L. Kozak received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University.  His fieldwork has focused on song poetics and political economy of the Tohono O’odham people of Arizona, and he has conducted research in shamanism,  medical anthropology, mortuary practices, adventurer culture, and applied anthropology in the American Southwest.  He is currently a research consultant for the National Institutes of Health and the San Juan Basin Department of Health.

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Aaron Lampman received a Ph.D. in Ecological Anthropology (2004) from the University of Georgia.  His research interests include ethnobiology, ethnoecology, anthropology of development, political ecology, ecotourism, applied anthropology, Mesoamerican culture, and human cognition and language.  Dr. Lampman has more than 10 years of experience conducting research with the Tzeltal Maya of Chiapas, Mexico, with a focus on ethnoecological knowledge, conceptions of nature and cultural change.  He has also conducted research on ecotourism in Oaxaca, Mexico and Seminole ethnobotany in the Southeastern United States.

Hired in 2005 to teach cultural and ecological anthropology, Dr. Lampman has taught at a diversity of institutions including the University of Georgia, Appalachian State University and Antioch College.  Over his career he has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Jacob’s Research Funds, and the Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group.  He has presented numerous papers at professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Mid-Atlantic States Mycology Conference, and the International Congress of Ethnobiology.  At Fort Lewis College, Dr. Lampman is working with the Environmental Center to grow ancient S.W. corn varieties in the student-run ethnobotany garden and teach in the newly formed learning community focused on environment and culture.

Dr. Lampman’s current research interests include cultural adaptations to environmental transformations in Latin America that are brought about by the expansion of trade agreements, global development initiatives and emerging patterns of migration.  Through work with indigenous groups who are actively seeking to expand on local solutions and support economic growth while allowing the maintenance of traditional cultural values and institutions, the goal is to support “local” development initiatives such as ecotourism, traditional crafts co-ops and alternative resource development strategies.  This research also attempts to further our understanding of how such initiatives affect local ecologies and maintenance of cultural identity.

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Dawn Mulhern received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Her primary research areas are skeletal histology and paleopathology.  She has extensive laboratory experience in the biological analysis of Native American skeletal remains prior to repatriation.  She has also conducted fieldwork and skeletal analyses at Giza, Egypt.  She is currently a Research Associate for the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and is also a forensic anthropologist for the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT), a national emergency response team. She serves as the FLC NAGPRA coordinator.

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Charles R. Riggs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Teaching: Dr. Riggs teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Culture, Heritage and Identity, Introduction to Archaeology, Prehistory of the Southwest, Prehistory of the Americas, Ancient Egypt, Legal and Ethical Issues in Anthropology, Research Methods in Anthropology, and Advanced Studies in Southwest Archaeology as part of his regular teaching rotation. In addition, he believes strongly in experiential education and regularly offers off-campus courses in places like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde National Park. Dr. Riggs also serves as the faculty mentor for anthropology students who participate in Fort Lewis College’s Mesa Verde, Chimney Rock, and Crow Canyon summer internship programs.  He is also the coordinator for the anthropology department’s recently proposed Heritage Resource Management Certificate program.

Service: Since coming to Fort Lewis Dr. Riggs has been highly active in college and professional service. He has chaired and/or served on departmental search committees. Currently he is a member of the Center for Southwest Studies Accessions and Deaccessions Committee and has served as the faculty advisor to the Anthropology Club. He has served on the faculty senate as the Recording Secretary, as the Vice President, and has chaired the Faculty Senate Rules Committee. Dr. Riggs participates or has participated in the American Indian Studies Advisory Committee, the Mesa Verde Centennial Advisory Committee, and the CCHE GtPathways course approval process. He is a member of the Center for Southwest Studies Advisory Board and is currently the Assessment Coordinator for the Anthropology Department as well as its self-appointed webmaster. In the past he has served on the NAGPRA Committee, the Intercultural Committee, the Navajo Studies Conference Organization Committee, and has given many lectures on Southwestern archaeology to public schools in Colorado and in Arizona.

Research/Scholarship: Dr. Riggs is also active in the area of scholarship. For three summers (2002 through 2004) he served as a faculty mentor and assistant director of the University of Arizona’s field school in Heritage Preservation. He has published book reviews in the journal American Antiquity, has reviewed numerous book manuscripts for the University of Utah Press, Oxford University Press, and the University of Arizona Press. He has also completed article reviews for the journals Kiva, American Antiquity, and the Journal of Anthropological Research. Dr. Riggs has also actively presented and published his own research, having presented papers at both national meetings and regional conferences. He has given informal presentations of his research as part of FLC’s Hozhoni Days lecture series, the Mesa Verde Centennial lecture series, the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society’s monthly meetings, and to the staff at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. His book, The Architecture of Grasshopper Pueblo, was published by the University of Utah Press, and he has published articles in the journal Kiva and in a number of peer-reviewed volumes. Dr. Riggs has also been the author or a contributing author on numerous archaeological reports and has contributed to the to the Durango community by providing opinion pieces regarding education, archaeology and anthropology in the Durango Herald. Dr. Riggs was awarded a grant from the Colorado State Historical fund in February 2007 and beginning in the summer of 2007, he will be conducting new excavations at the Pigg Site, a component of the Lowry Community in Southwest Colorado.

Dr. Riggs received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1999.  His area of expertise is in Southwest archaeology with emphases on prehistoric architecture, migration, GIS-based approaches, public education, Native American collaboration, and cultural resource management.  His experience in Southwest archaeology includes fieldwork or research throughout Arizona, and in southern California and New Mexico. For more information about his courses, publications, and projects, see his web site at  http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/riggs_c.

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